President is 'Dithering' and 'Risk-Averse' Says Former Obama Foreign Policy Adviser

Probably off the White House Christmas card list

Barack Obama is a "dithering" president whose controlling tendencies and extreme risk-averse attitude to foreign policy has damaged US interests in the Middle East, according to a new book by a senior former State Department adviser.

The insider-account of the damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department comes as diplomats around the world wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr Obama to greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East.

Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a "Berlin Wall" of domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama.

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[Jesus H. Christ]

Obama uses drones as his emissaries. I don't think the mid east needs any more "engagement" from this particular prez.

[Sevo]

The guy is worse than Clinton; he does nothing without polls telling him which way the wind is blowing.
See, oh, his "stand" on gay marriage.

[Sevo]

Make that "stands".

[darius404]

See, oh, his "stand" on gay marriage.

The scent of political opportunity gets him all excited.

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[ThatSkepticGuy]

"President is 'Dithering' and 'Risk-Averse' Says Former Obama Foreign Policy Adviser"

You forgot narcissistic, authoritarian, incompetent, blame-shifting, petty, whiney, sollipsistic, obnoxious, cement-headed and habitual liar.